I agree with everything the rabbi wrote, but I must add some things, and then offer my ideas as to the solution.
First off, there are sadly countless kids who are, as he put it "disenchanted, who are unhappy with life, unhappy with their families, unhappy with their leaders, unhappy with their schools and unhappy with themselves." What he neglects to mention is that there are as many adults, and possibly more, who feel the same way. The fact that children feel this way is for many of the same reasons adults do.
In recent years the plight of the teens has come to the forefront of our attention. The plight of adults has not. Why not?
I believe the reason is that most adults who feel that way fit into one of two categories. Either they are no longer frum or they are conducting themselves as frum people but there is no ruach in their Mitzvah observance, they are acting only out of rote. Either way, they are not acting out their dissatisfaction within the community in the blatantly open manner of the disaffected teens. They are invisibe.
Why do they remain within the fold if they feel that way? It is generally either because of family pressure, they don't want to hrt their kids, their parents, not to ruin the family reputation, or because of guilt.
These are prescriptions for misery.
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